The Arkansas Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Commission approved $217,767,302 in financial assistance for 16 water and wastewater projects serving more than 622,472 Arkansans.
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and to help combat childhood cancer, Relay FM kicked off its annual fundraiser for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Officials explained these mutations lead to an impact on different organs and can lead to mitochondria-induced multiple organ disorder syndromes, or MIMODS.
An Arkansas resident has died after being infected with an extremely rare brain-eating amoeba and health officials have concluded they were likely exposed to it at a country’s club’s splash pad, authorities announced Thursday.
The Red Cross and Arkansas State University are inviting students, staff, faculty, and the Northeast Arkansas communities to rally around this lifesaving cause.
Four area schools received travel-automated external defibrillators from the NEA Baptist Charitable Foundation. A representative from the Jonesboro, Riverside, Bay, and Harrisburg school districts was present at a ceremony on Wednesday to receive the AEDs.
The Food and Drug Administration decision opens the newest shots from Moderna and Pfizer and its partner BioNTech to most Americans even if they’ve never had a coronavirus vaccination.
As the nation deals with a shortage of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder medication, parents and pharmacies are finding ways to work around the shortage.
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville will conduct research on the effect of exercise on aging, thanks to a $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health
ADH says the outbreak started about two weeks ago. 42 people were identified in the outbreak, 37 of which are probable cases and 5 of them have been confirmed as positive cases.
Veterans living in Northeast Arkansas and Southeast Missouri will have several opportunities to get no-cost influenza vaccinations during September and October.
Fulton County Judge Kenneth Crow said the agreement was necessary, as it was only a matter of time until the county hospital would be forced to close its doors.
Between Aug. 17 and Aug. 24, Arkansas had an additional 2,185 cases of the virus. An additional 44 were also hospitalized due to COVID-19 in that time frame.
Hot temperatures and high humidity have caused problems across Northeast Arkansas and Southeast Missouri, with one to four patients going to the emergency room with heat-related issues each day.
With temperatures around 100 there are times of day where it is unbearable outside and in Brookland the school district is aware of this and tried to help their students.
Missouri’s Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey and the families of transgender children are in court this week fighting over whether a new law banning minors from receiving gender-affirming health care will take effect as scheduled Monday.
A new COVID variant is making the rounds in the northern United States and doctors believe it may not be long until people start seeing the affects in northeast Arkansas.
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